You can have a Championship game with 10 teams. The Big 10(divisionless) and the Sunbelt(2 divisions) have 10 teams and have CCG. Instead of finding someone to add, maybe find the worst team and drop to 10.

(01-02-2020 04:31 PM)kevinwmsn Wrote:  You can have a Championship game with 10 teams. The Big 10(divisionless) and the Sunbelt(2 divisions) have 10 teams and have CCG. Instead of finding someone to add, maybe find the worst team and drop to 10.

Is it possible to "drop" a team?
The conference can just be like sorry we don't want you anymore?

(01-02-2020 04:31 PM)kevinwmsn Wrote:  You can have a Championship game with 10 teams. The Big 10(divisionless) and the Sunbelt(2 divisions) have 10 teams and have CCG. Instead of finding someone to add, maybe find the worst team and drop to 10.

You can have a championship game with 11 teams and uneven divisions, too.

ESPN was gonna let contract stand, there would be no adjustment.
1/12 at least, maybe slightly more

(01-02-2020 05:02 PM)templefootballfan Wrote:  ESPN was gonna let contract stand, there would be no adjustment.
1/12 at least, maybe slightly more

What?!?

Please stop just randomly making stuff up...

(01-02-2020 04:31 PM)kevinwmsn Wrote:  You can have a Championship game with 10 teams. The Big 10(divisionless) and the Sunbelt(2 divisions) have 10 teams and have CCG. Instead of finding someone to add, maybe find the worst team and drop to 10.

Yes, and you can have a Championship Game with 11 (with or without divisions), you can have a Championship Game with 12 (with or without divisions), you can have a Championship Game with 13 (with or without divisions), you can have a Championship Game with 14 (with or without divisions), you can have a Championship Game with 15 (with or without divisions), you can have a Championship Game with 16 (with or without divisions), you can have a Championship Game with 17 (with or without divisions), you can have a Championship Game with 18 (with or without divisions), not sure beyond 18 teams... Unbalence schedule if you have divisions wit "ODD NUMBER" of teams "Round-Robbin" within divisions, or "Round-Robbin" without divisions.

(01-02-2020 04:33 PM)grapes Wrote:  

(01-02-2020 04:31 PM)kevinwmsn Wrote:  You can have a Championship game with 10 teams. The Big 10(divisionless) and the Sunbelt(2 divisions) have 10 teams and have CCG. Instead of finding someone to add, maybe find the worst team and drop to 10.

Is it possible to "drop" a team?
The conference can just be like sorry we don't want you anymore?

Mike Aresco has stated on multiple occasions that the AAC "WILL NOT" drop a current member.

What I'm making up. ESPN not gonna pay for 12 schools, AAC is at 11.
Name 1 school that would have more ESPN+ subscriptions than Conn.

(01-02-2020 06:34 PM)templefootballfan Wrote:  What I'm making up. ESPN not gonna pay for 12 schools, AAC is at 11.
Name 1 school that would have more ESPN+ subscriptions than Conn.

VCU/Air Force just to name one combination... BTW, for all the ties that I've seen people post that UConn has a goo portion of the NYC market, that is just not true, WBB their only draw in NYC other than a few years in MBB during the Jim Calhoun Era.

Most of their ESPN games are blacked out in NYC, maybe due to SNY???

(01-02-2020 06:34 PM)templefootballfan Wrote:  What I'm making up. ESPN not gonna pay for 12 schools, AAC is at 11.
Name 1 school that would have more ESPN+ subscriptions than Conn.

Well, I was specifically scoffing at "maybe slightly more." Aresco has directly said the AAC won't lose money per team.

Without having seen the contract, there is no way number of subscriptions is any requirement.

Even saying "12 schools" and "1/12th" is simpleton thinking and displays lack of understanding. Media rights contracts aren't written as $x per school times the number of schools.
The AAC-ESPN media rights deal is about $83M to the conference for numbers of games in different days and timeslots on different linear networks and ESPN+, and the monetary value is skewed to football because that is where the viewers, advertisers, and dollars are.
Even acknowledging the brand value of UConn MBB and WBB, and that ESPN would want / value that for ESPN+ in order to garner subscriptions, it is probably not worth even a full 1/12th of the average annual value.

But mainly I was scoffing at "maybe slightly more" based on absolutely nothing.

(01-02-2020 08:37 AM)jedclampett Wrote:  

(01-01-2020 03:11 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  

(01-01-2020 11:21 AM)geosnooker2000 Wrote:  

(12-30-2019 07:45 PM)sierrajip Wrote:  

(12-29-2019 03:21 PM)sherekhan Wrote:  Is it possible to have verbiage added to the TV contract that states ESPN announcers are not allowed to refer to AAC schools as the "Group Of Five" while doing telecasts? This is insulting.

Some of our schools have been competing in College Athletics over a century and have shared conferences with many P-5 schools. We feel we are on the same level and should be treated with the same respect.

He!!, I'd be happy if the announcers would call UCF by their right name. Heard them called UFC during the bowl game.

Y'all need to go back to "central florida". Harder to mess that up. Or just do like we did. "Orlando".

I always thought that they should be called “UFO”

They were probably drunk. At least they didn't call them "KFC."

LOL

Now I'm hungry.

(01-02-2020 06:34 PM)templefootballfan Wrote:  What I'm making up. ESPN not gonna pay for 12 schools, AAC is at 11.
Name 1 school that would have more ESPN+ subscriptions than Conn.

In BB, I can't.

(01-02-2020 06:34 PM)templefootballfan Wrote:  What I'm making up. ESPN not gonna pay for 12 schools, AAC is at 11.
Name 1 school that would have more ESPN+ subscriptions than Conn.

In football?

(01-02-2020 06:11 PM)GoOwls111 Wrote:  

(01-02-2020 04:31 PM)kevinwmsn Wrote:  You can have a Championship game with 10 teams. The Big 10(divisionless) and the Sunbelt(2 divisions) have 10 teams and have CCG. Instead of finding someone to add, maybe find the worst team and drop to 10.

Yes, and you can have a Championship Game with 11 (with or without divisions), you can have a Championship Game with 12 (with or without divisions), you can have a Championship Game with 13 (with or without divisions), you can have a Championship Game with 14 (with or without divisions), you can have a Championship Game with 15 (with or without divisions), you can have a Championship Game with 16 (with or without divisions), you can have a Championship Game with 17 (with or without divisions), you can have a Championship Game with 18 (with or without divisions), not sure beyond 18 teams... Unbalence schedule if you have divisions wit "ODD NUMBER" of teams "Round-Robbin" within divisions, or "Round-Robbin" without divisions.

Thanks for posting this. Can we make this required reading prior to being able to post any comments about the need to add a school?

(01-02-2020 06:34 PM)templefootballfan Wrote:  What I'm making up. ESPN not gonna pay for 12 schools, AAC is at 11.
Name 1 school that would have more ESPN+ subscriptions than Conn.

UConn is an unusual case, with a great M & W basketball legacy in a large metro area, but a brief & fading FB legacy.

With respect to BB, from a broadcasting standpoint, there are more than 10 million viewers within a 2 hour drive of VCU (Richmond, VA).

ESPN would add a very lucrative viewership market if VCU were to join. It would at least partially or substantially offset the loss of UConn BB.

In addition, ESPN could more than make up for the loss of UConn FB if the AAC were to add Air Force or San Diego State (10 bowls in the past 10 years).

Adding both VCU and AF or SDSU would probably be more profitable to ESPN than UConn has been.

Come on Jed, AF & VCU are not interested.

(01-03-2020 04:17 AM)templefootballfan Wrote:  Come on Jed, AF & VCU are not interested.

Do you have any inside information on this, or is it just speculation?

My guess is that you're being pessimistic and simply speculating.

No one on this site has provided any information about AF's or VCU's interest or disinterest, and none has been publicly reported, to my knowledge.

The fact that nothing has been announced yet suggests the possibility that Aresco's decision not to actively contact any potential "adds" to the conference has discouraged potential members from making contact with him about possible membership.

(01-03-2020 04:29 AM)jedclampett Wrote:  

(01-03-2020 04:17 AM)templefootballfan Wrote:  Come on Jed, AF & VCU are not interested.

Do you have any inside information on this, or is it just speculation?

My guess is that you're being pessimistic and simply speculating.

No one on this site has provided any information about AF's or VCU's interest or disinterest, and none has been publicly reported, to my knowledge.

The fact that nothing has been announced yet suggests the possibility that Aresco's decision not to actively contact any potential "adds" to the conference has discouraged potential members from making contact with him about possible membership.

He lives in his mom’s basement so I say no, he doesn’t have inside info.

(01-02-2020 06:34 PM)templefootballfan Wrote:  What I'm making up. ESPN not gonna pay for 12 schools, AAC is at 11.
Name 1 school that would have more ESPN+ subscriptions than Conn.

I would think pretty much everyone other than Tulsa. Not a knock on Tulsa, they just graduate way less than everyone else.

I would have been interested to see the actuals on how many ESPN+ subscriptions UConn women's basketball really would have brought in. While UConn owned the pond(population of people who not only watch womens basketball, but are willing to pay a separate subscription for it), I think it's smaller than UConn fans are saying.

Everybody speculating, however VCU had 6 yrs to make move & hasn't called yet.
That's the best you got, Pony.
Juan, your out of your mind. Maybe ECU & Memphis BB.
There will be interest in Conn WBB nationwide